Mo Ryan scoops new Dany

There is another pic of possibe Dany found by Elio and Linda from Westeros site & blog.

Ok, this is getting weird.

I swear the last comment was written before I see the commercial that Milan pointed out on the last thread.

You know, I have to agree with Adam on this one.

Like I said in the comments, the Facebook/Myspace Clark may be a red herring.

This is the same Emilia as on IMDB:
http://www.spotlight.com/7655-7861-0395

She has a listing for Samaritans, which has the following video, which looks like the picture on IMDB/Spotlight:

If this is the right Emilia, it'd be pretty great:
http://www.youtube.com/user/samaritans#p/u/2/Atje…

Thanks to Milan for pointing out the Samaritan connection.

I agree, Paul.
I like her very much at that video.

Wow, I hope it's the one who was crying in the commercial, she is gorgeous and very emotive.

HBO ninja in disguise?

We cought you, at last! ;)

Not to be too much of a psycho about this, but I'm pretty positive the person in the Samaritans commercials is the Emilia from IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1536790016/nm3592338

This picture is the same as the one on the spotlight page, and if you look at all of those pictures she has a mole pattern on her left cheek.

The same pattern is present on the girl in both the "Lisa's Story" and "Portrait of Abuse" videos.

Now if only we knew for sure that Emilia Clark = Emilia Clarke, I could rest easy. I have no doubt in my mind that she could play Dany.

If it is indeed Emilia Clarke (the young woman on IMDB and in the two samaitans commercials) who has been cast as Daenerys, then I congratulate HBO on their fine choice.

I'm so exited about any Thrones (potential)news, that i got goosebumps watching that commercial. Lookswise and the little acting that we saw was very convincing. And she looks young and all of that.

This Emilia Clarke from Samaritans might look less like Dany of my imagination than Tamzin did, but forgetting that, she looks great. I'm officially relieved! An unknown with some acting experience and fitting looks, what more could have we wished for? Her acting abilities are still to be seen, of course, but I suppose we can trust in HBO – for now anyway.

Hopefully other casting news will follow soon :)

Ellen Page for sure. I noticed that right away.

I think we have to wait for the official announcement to know which one was chosen to play Dany.

Yeah, I can see that… which is odd because usually Ellen Page annoys the crap out of me. But this girl didn't. Guess we'll just have to see. I am eager to hear a full official announcement.

Yeah. I'm 100% for her. This is great news for the show in my opinion.

It's the one from IMDB. GRRM just confirmed.

I just can't stress how important it is that we have someone like Emilia as Dany. I care about what happens to her already. I have a feeling the audience will give Dany's story its proper place in the series rather than thinking it's a "detour" from the events happening with the Starks and Lannisters.

Also, Emilia Clarke appears to be only 5'2" (157cm) long. That will surely help in making her appear young among such characters as Drogo and Jorah.

I agree that Dany is one important key to generating a female following. And yes, it's hard not to be impressed with Emilia.

Oh my god. She's Dany. Completely and unequivocally Dany.

I. Cannot. Freaking. Wait.

Welcome Marga, and since GRRM acknowledged over on his blog that it is Emilia Clarke, we can breathe a sigh of relief concerning this casting choice. Like some have mentioned already she has that lovely attractive type of face that people will instantly feel affection toward, especially with those large gentle eyes of hers.
I really like her bio, especially that she is attending Drama Centre London, which has an impressive list of alumni and the fact that this school is widely known and respected for it's training of actors in method technigue's along with improvisation is a major plus for her.
She also appears to very athletic and skilled in the classical arts, both great attributes, though she might have to lay off the sailing, skiing a little since I am sure HBO will have it stated she cannot participate in physical hobbies that might cause serious injury to her.

The commercial is one year old, btw. But i actually think she could even pass for 14 in that one.

Also, she's short and slim, and next to big bulky Jason Momoa, she'll definately look young enough.

do i have to avoid reading these threads to avoid end of the series spoilers?

To be 100% sure, yes. WiC generally disourages spoilers, but people will forget.

that was the first thing i thought!

that's an absurd spoiler policy. I can understand allowing what's in the books, but beyond the published books?

"Only downside is she doesn't look quite as young as Tamzin"

-I disagree for the record. Maybe in her profile pic, but i think the video shows her more like she is. Theres less room for cheating than on pics, and she might have chosen an older looking picture of herself to land different roles.

I think that's definitely the case. She's got herself listed as 16-25, so an older looking picture would be helpful for that.

My first impression was that Clarke (the brunette) was the one, and I liked her.

Yeah it's great to see that so far everyone agrees on her. It's a WiC first! XD
Let's hope it stays that way *crosses fingers*

Awesome! I was a Tamzin fan, but Emilia looks to be a fantastic fit. The emotion she showed in those commercials was very convincing. Happy!

no offence but anyone who would rather spend 50 minutes a week watching Emilia Clarke rather than Elena Staine is either a girl or a nonce. boooooo. i mean you could hardly do worse than TM but with Elena sitting out there waiting to be in this show i find it hard to fathom why you would go with somebody entirely unknown.

Well, obviously nobody except GRRM himself _knows_ much anything beyond published books.* Everything about the future of the series is just speculation (including the very publication of the next volume…).

* OK, there's the few chapters from the Dance he has read in public, but those do not count, really…

Our first real negative post, after so many positive ones, it has got to be a record of sorts. This is cause for celebration!

I guess i'm a nonce, btw. Whatever that is….

I liked her right away. She has the right look and punchy eyes. And she is an (relatively) unknown, witch is allways a good thing.
Does anyone know her age? It isn´t important, I totally buy her as 15-16. I´m just curious.

I was one of the biggest admirers of Elena Satine, but I have to say Emilia Clarke looks far more suitable for the role.

how is it negative to state a preference for an actress who has a larger body of work and more experience and who has a better look. ES looks regal. she has presence and bearing and grace. she has been classically trained on more than one continent and has the foreign, non english/british angle to pull off the foreignness of the Targeryns. this girl looks like a ragamuffin. she's pretty. i'd date her. but honestly she is no queen and doesn't have the bearing of one. and one commercial looking sad and crying into a phone is no way to judge if she can even act. i am hopeful that she has had decent training but nothing compared to ES.

i have to say this is a huge disappointment for me. i was amused watching all of the danerys auditions because i just figured that ES was perfect so no real harm done. but bypassing such a great possible asset for the show for an entirely unknown quantity for such a pivotal role just makes absolutely no sense. very suspect imho.

According to her Spotlight bio, she's apparently also in this movie Fossils, but which doesn't have public information available on IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1264086/

"…anyone who would rather spend 50 minutes a week watching Emilia Clarke rather than Elena Staine is either a girl or a nonce."

Or has a different take on the Dany character than eye candy. I don't think we're meant to *enjoy* watching what Dany goes through.

I think she's a gorgeous girl, but she's also got that innocent "girl next door" kind of quality. Natural, fresh. "Real", like sjwenings said. Should do just fine in appealing to female viewers.

The commercials are all we got to see, but I trust the casting directors and producers for the actual show who watched her audition have a fair enough amount of experience when it comes to judging talent.

well if you are so myopic to think that the only thing ES had going for he is "eye candy" (which by the way she isn't even really that eye-candyrific in general mainstream terms) than that is really sort of a you issue.

the point is nobody knows anything about this girl. if we compare their training ES comes out ahead. if we compare their body of work ES comes out ahead. as for "how suited for the role" that is a personal thing … i prefer somebody who can encapsulate the alien/foreign nature of the targyens and the royal bearing and presence and persona that dany grows into but is part of her from birth. others prefer doe eyed vulnerability … that will be great for the one or two episodes that cover her growth into full fledged dany .. what then? nobody is going to tell me that this new girl, on the surface and from what little can be known now, is more suited for QUEEN Dany than ES. maybe more suited for the pre-Queen Dany but certainly not the after.

Well, one of the few things we _do_ know is that the casting people chose her over Elena Satine. They might have made a mistake, such things happen. But also it's possible that Elena just wasn't as good. Such things happen.

I rather trust the Nina Gold & co. than someone in the internet who starts by calling the opposing party (girls or) sex-offenders. That's somewhat negative attitude to begin with.

I'm basing the eye candy statement on your original statement that anyone wanting to watch 50 minutes a week of Emilia Clarke vs. 50 minutes a week of Elena Satine was either female or pedophile. If you had another implication over the issue of attractiveness in *that particular statement* I missed it.

Also, again, we're not casting the show. I was fine listening to people coming on here pining for Elena Satine when it was her and a few other people folks were guessing at, but SERIOUSLY?

First of all, Emilia Clarke moved me more in a commercial where she didn't say a single word than any clips of Elena Satine ever did. That's a fact.

Secondly, and more importantly, your opinion of how much more suitable she is simply doesn't matter. The fact that I don't agree with you doesn't matter. HBO made their choice, and your pick didn't make it. I'm happy I'm so elated about Emilia Clarke because that's who we've got.

I assume it was the writing/character she played in The Tudors.

I just read your entire comment in the Comic Book Guy's voice.

Just to point out…

I would argue that Emilia Clarke's body of work now trumps Elena Satine's. She has been, in fact, cast in a huge HBO production as a major role while I have no fucking clue what Elena has been in besides a few TV shows.

Melrose Place?

Good point, nonetheless.

I'd love to see her cast as Shae.

omgosh it’s so great to know that it really is her!!! just like paul, she is the first possible Dany for whom I’ve been really excited!!
besides in the spotlight link:
Sports:
Horse-riding …
i really think she has the pottencial

Recent graduate list of Drama Centre London has a little bit different pic than the Spotlight page, though only marginally (and its stamp-size):http://courses.csm.arts.ac.uk/drama/images/studen…

My take (as a girl) is this: Elena Satine/Jason Momoa on-screen sex scene would be kind of hot. Dany/Drogo sex is not supposed to be hot, it's supposed to be DISTURBING. The young, vulnerable thing is extremely important, and what ES, in my opinion, lacked.

I'm sorry, but that girl Emilia girl is average at best!!! She looks like a 2nd rate Ellen Page (so definitely not my Dany). While i never liked Ms. Merchant, i think she was far better suited, as she look more regal then this girl (who looks like she should be playing the servant instead of the princess)

As an avid Elena Satine supporter, the 1 thing that bothers me about this casting is that I find this girl looks MUCH MUCH older then Elena (which seemed to be the biggest complaint). Not to mention she's never even acted in anything significant before…how do they know she won't totally choke when they start rolling???? To give a good audition in 1 thing, to deliver on the day and carry a show is a whoooollllee other story.

I say EPIC FAIL!

I pretty much agree with you.

Look, I believe that Elena Satine is probably the better actress of the 2 (based on what I've seen she's up there with Emily Blunt and Rebecca Hall) but here is why I think she didn't get cast as DANY…

Her beauty is quite threatening and overpowering. It's that Megan Fox factor where because she is so damn pretty people are NOT gonna like her. I think that's fact. So to cast her to play a character the audience is supposed to want to protect and take care of, is not the best idea. She is a lot better suited for the darker or more mythical roles such as Shae or Melissandre (is they decide to make her younger).

While she is more regal then Emilia, she is also far more intimidating.

Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't it still uncomfirmed which role Elena Satine even auditioned for?

Maybe it's obvious it was Dany, but I thought it was still uncomfirmed and I think that bears remembering.

I'd rather see ES as Melissandre. She seems wayy too regal to play a whore (Shae)

she has a fat face…i really hope the rest of her is thin…since we'll be seeing a whole lot of her. (and Dany is meant to be frail)

Thank you Entchen! I get really disturbed when people were suggesting all these hot bombshells for Dany and wanted the Dany/Drogo stucc to be all sexy. It's NOT. Let's remember that in the books she is 13! And if you are envisioning hot sexy action between a 13 year old and an adult man, then …yeah… something wrong there. As you said, it's supposed to be disturbing. Dany's transition from an abused and vulnerable child to the mother of dragons is an amazing character development. You need someone who can do both. Personally, I simply couldn't buy Elena Satine being able to convey the starting stages of Dany. If you just want to start the character off at the end of the development then you miss the character itself. The transformation is a journey and one that is gripping and engaging to witness. Taking that away destroys the character. Elena Satine honestly looked WAY too old. There's no way she looked under 20 to me. Furthermore, Dany shouldn't start off being naturally regal. All because she has the blood of a dragon doesn't mean she carries herself with a regal bearing. Who was she raised by? Let's see, her older, abusive brother. Have you seen the way abused people carry themselves? They generally lack that quality because they've been kept down for so long. That's what's important about Dany is yes that she overcomes that eventually, but it's vital that we first see her in her most vulnerable state.

Fat face? Really? Yer nuts.

The Winter Rose, you've beautifully articulated what I've been trying to say ever since people started suggesting hot men to be cast as Drogo. Any time someone said, "I wouldn't mind trading places with Dany," I cringed a bit. It looks like HBO gets it and I couldn't be happier.

Yeah, I don't think she has a fat face. But I wouldn't worry about her build – according to her resume she seems to be involved in alot of athletics, including ballet, so I'm sure she's quite slender.

I've never really experienced reverse-PR like this before, but I honestly have to keep reminding myself that she's a talented actress who deserves the benefit of the doubt. The extreme push-back from her friends and fans has been a little weird in the past and is extremely off-putting at this point. Anyone who really supports Elena Satine and wants people to see her for her own merits should dial it back a few notches.

I didn't know how much of that you wanted this mentioned, but that's exactly what I was hinting at below. I guess since you wrote it, it's okay to reference. She's fine as an actress but the conduct of the people associated with her isn't doing her any favors.

Wic, for you to say that you don't want Elena on the show because she asked you to remove a tweet (whether bogus or not) is very mean spirited and I'm extremely disappointed to see you say that.

as for the twitter, please stop spreading lies. I have been following the twitter acct at question since you brought it to our attention 2 months ago…and it is run by a 14 y/o Brazilian boy named Marcelo, who has turned it into a shrine for Elena's work after getting caught impersonating her. (very creepy, but fact)

You are free to believe what you wish. But that twitter does not belong to her and never has.

How you treat people goes a long way to how they feel about you, and taking an adversarial approach when it's unnecessary won't endear people to you. Regardless of what's going on with that Twitter account, it could have been handled better. Even now, you're not really helping matters. I know it may not matter to you what other people think of her, but there really are much better ways to show your appreciation for an actress and to get people to recognize her talents than to be outright hostile to anyone you perceive as her enemy.

Honestly, if you're actively trying to get people to dislike her you're hitting all the right buttons.

The producers of the show read this site on occasion, too, so if you *really* want to try and help Elena get work on the show just let everything cool down.

I'm satisfied with the selection, glad to get some news, hopefully more will follow in the next week.

I was privy to a few things about this whole twitter account fiasco, as well, and from all the info I got I'm quite certain WiC is telling the truth. If WiC only had his reputation to go on that he's built up here with good information and true scoops in the past, I think it would be enough to take his word for it. But being a mod over at Westeros.org has afforded me a bit more background on this particular incident, and what he says above jives completely with the information I got, as well.

As for Satine, I really feel bad for how that all went down. I'm sure she had no idea just how rabid the fanbase for the project was and didn't think for a second that by twittering some stuff, mostly to friends probably, she'd bring down the holy wrath of the Internet upon her, but that's how it turned out. It's the kind of thing that really is up to her managers/agents to tell her to watch out for. It's a new day and age for this sort of thing and even 5 years ago, it was much, much harder for an actor to get such information out there to the whole world, searchable on Google. Nobody cared if you told a few friends you went out for this or that role, but now it's all online and the whole world can see it if you aren't careful.

3 things…

1 WiC: my friend, I'm afraid that by responding to this thread you have egged on a buncha geeks who seem to think they are investigators.

2 Leah: there are currently 5 people on twitter claiming to be Elena Satine. I don't doubt that the person you are following is a 14 year old Brazilian boy, however you have no way of knowing whether or not any of the 4 other accts belong to ms. Satine or not. (unless they are verified by Twitter)

3 This is by far the most retarded conversation ever had on this board. So let's just let it die, ey?

goodnight all.

Lol! AGREED! :D

As you say – Just the fact that it is WiC that states this is enough for me. I never really followed the whole SatineGate thing – only in the beginning – so I remember less than some and know even less. (Becoming curious of what I missed though)
But WiC is reliable and there are some other people here as well that I have never heard speak out of line or bring unsolicited and offensive "news" or lies or talk in any way.
Paul Gude, Brude to name some..
But good choice anyway. With Ellen Page – sorry! Emilia Clarke! ;D

Piper Perabo – who has a love affair with Lena Headey in Imagine Me And You? Now that starts getting weird….